AWS / Cloud Architect with Payments Experience - Charlotte, NC (Onsite)

Job Description

AWS Technical / Cloud Architect with Payments Experience

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Java, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Rest API, microservices, Kafka, Cloud, Kubernetes.

Agile concepts, CI/CD with Payments exposer like ISO, Fed wire, Swift, MT message Knowledge

10+ years’ experience

Payments Experience:

Payment domain expertise is preferred and can significantly enhance opportunities across Global Transaction Services, and Payments Modernization programs.

• Experience with Wire, ACH, and Real-Time Payments

• Knowledge of ISO 20022 messaging standards

• Understanding of payment initiation, processing, settlement, reconciliation, and exception management

• Experience with high-volume and mission-critical transaction-processing platforms

• Exposure to payment modernization and cloud-transformation initiatives

• Knowledge of event-driven payment-processing architectures

• Understanding of banking security, regulatory, resiliency, and compliance requirements

Roles & Responsibilities

• 10+ years of experience in AWS services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, and CloudWatch, Java, Sprint boot, Microservices, Rest API, Kafka.

• Experiences working with payments rails/products, such as FedWire, Chips, TCH, SEPA, Wires, ACH, Real Time Payments, SWIFT, ISO etc.

• Hands-on experience with AI models and tools, such as Copilot, Claude, etc a plus

• Involved in Enterprise cloud architecture and solution design

• Hands on in Java 25 and Spring Boot 4.1+,Angular 22, Python/Node.js

• Microservices and event-driven architecture, Oracle Database and cloud database migration,JBoss Application Server

• OpenShift Platform and legacy VM-based deployments, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, and EKS

• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation

• CI/CD using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps

• REST APIs and enterprise integration patterns

• Kafka, MQ, and enterprise messaging platforms

• AWS security, IAM, VPC, networking, encryption, secrets management, and compliance

• Monitoring and observability using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana

• Application modernization and cloud migration patterns

• Cloud performance, scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and cost optimization

• DevSecOps, platform engineering, and automated deployment practices

• Lead the discovery and assessment of applications deployed across legacy V M-based infrastructure and OpenShift environments.

• Analyze the application inventory, current architecture, technology stack, infrastructure footprint, business criticality, non-functional requirements, and technical debt.

• Map application dependencies, data flows, interfaces, APIs, messaging platforms, and upstream and downstream integrations.

• Assess application, infrastructure, database, security, compliance, and operational readiness for migration to AWS.

• Categorize applications based on business criticality, cloud readiness, migration complexity, dependencies, risks, and modernization requirements.

• Evaluate legacy and OpenShift-based applications and recommend appropriate rehost, replatform, refactor, or re-architect migration strategies.

• Define target-state AWS architecture covering landing zone, networking, compute, containers, databases, integrations, security, observability, backup, and disaster recovery.

• Design cloud-native solutions using microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, containers, serverless technologies, and suitable AWS-managed services.

• Develop application modernization strategies, including application decomposition, API enablement, containerization, and migration from legacy technologies.

• Define Oracle database and data-migration strategies covering sequencing, validation, reconciliation, cutover, data integrity, and rollback requirements.

• Develop application migration waves, dependency-based sequencing, implementation roadmaps, milestones, timelines, and resource requirements.

• Establish cloud security, IAM, encryption, network security, governance, compliance controls, architecture guardrails, and risk-mitigation recommendations.

• Define DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, automated testing, security scanning, release management, monitoring, and platform-operations models.

• Prepare high-level estimates for assessment, migration, modernization, testing, deployment, transition, cloud costs, and resource requirements.

• Lead architecture reviews, technical design discussions, proposal development, executive presentations, stakeholder collaboration, and technical mentoring across onshore and offshore teams.